Senior Cloudera Architect

We are looking for Senior Cloudera Solution Architect for our Fortune 500 client and their banking client. We’re looking for an engineer with deep experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale big data, streaming, and real-time data integration solutions. The role is focused on solution architecture across Cloudera-based big data platforms, Kafka-based streaming applications, and real-time data integration / analytics solutions, including cloud-hosted data platforms such as Cloudera on AWS or equivalent AWS-native services. The role also provides architectural leadership across Data Solutions, helping shape architecture strategy, design standards, engineering best practices, and the future evolution of the Bank’s data platform capabilities.

This is a long-term remote-first contract position with a location in EU.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end solution architecture for large-scale distributed data, streaming, and data integration solutions.

• Act as the lead architect for Data Solutions distributed data, integration and platforms, providing architectural direction, governance, design assurance and technical leadership across initiatives, while influencing the evolution of the target architecture and ensuring alignment with enterprise technology strategy, engineering standards and long-term platform objectives.

• Accountable for solution architecture across the Enterprise Data Lake, Operational Datastore and associated data platform services within the Cloudera CDP environment on AWS.

• Design and document scalable distributed data and streaming solutions across Cloudera, Kafka, API, and cloud platforms, including ingestion, processing, storage, and consumption patterns.

• Provide architectural oversight across solution delivery, ensuring consistency, quality and alignment with approved designs.

• Work with engineering teams to ensure solutions are deliverable, scalable, secure, supportable, and aligned to enterprise architecture principles.

• Review technical designs produced by engineering teams and ensure alignment with the approved solution architecture.

• Identify technical risks, dependencies, assumptions, non-functional requirements, and design trade-offs.

• Support delivery planning by helping break solutions into iterative delivery increments and sprint-level outcomes. Represent solution designs at architecture review boards and governance forums, engaging effectively with business stakeholders, delivery teams, and

  enterprise architects.

• Develop and promote architectural patterns, engineering standards and best practices across the data platform ecosystem.

Work Conditions

• Start Date: October

• Location: Remote in EU

• Long-term contract based-role: PO till December 2026 with extension to 2027